things i like about winter:
*getting to wear tights
*spooky looking trees
*bed feels sooooo good
*my fuzzy hat and my han solo on hoth jacket!
*heated floors
*smell of wood burning outside
*clear days like you're looking into a lake made of glass
*excuse to hermit inside with tea and chocolate or hot chocolate, wearing a scarf and toe socks
* it will snow!...
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*getting to wear tights
*spooky looking trees
*bed feels sooooo good
*my fuzzy hat and my han solo on hoth jacket!
*heated floors
*smell of wood burning outside
*clear days like you're looking into a lake made of glass
*excuse to hermit inside with tea and chocolate or hot chocolate, wearing a scarf and toe socks
* it will snow!...
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last night i dreamt about breakfast. i was staying at a really high end hotel, and they had a breakfast buffet.( it was one of those secret agent style dreams, where somehow i had to stop something terrible from happening, but only i knew about it...) but then there was breakfast! bacon and eggs and omlets and waffles! waffles with big fat ripe blueberries, and...
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earplug6947:
>and now i'm like the nerdy hot glasses skank of my >dreams.
correction...OUR dreams.
correction...OUR dreams.
hmmm.... up not so late but it feels late. only actually 11:30 or so, ( yesterday for the rest of you) tonight a friend of mine made mexican food. she made homemade torilllas, and somehow got some pintos and black beans from some black market place. they were out of maragarita mix, and we've been drinking pina coladas all night ( since 7).... mostly rum,...
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bob_dobalina:
there's a time and a place for soju. but i never seem to know where to go at what time.
things floating around in my head, mental conversations to come:
*connection of food and power in gender roles here in korea
* the cultural construction of beauty and the coninuation of western imperialism
*zen aesthetic in art and design/ the concept of perfection through simplicity, enlightenment thru focused action
* why am i not in thailand?
* alternate universes in which stinky things do not...
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*connection of food and power in gender roles here in korea
* the cultural construction of beauty and the coninuation of western imperialism
*zen aesthetic in art and design/ the concept of perfection through simplicity, enlightenment thru focused action
* why am i not in thailand?
* alternate universes in which stinky things do not...
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psmith:
tell me about food,power and gender roles. I'm an anthro major. That is my kind of thing.
girlcatx:
i did some anthro in college, and sepcifically studied food and gender roles in the us ( ie. the sexual politics of meat, the heirarchy of foods and who is priveledged enough to eat them, etc etc... another whole discussion.
but here things are a bit different. first you have to understand the set-up of traditional korean food... there is usually no "main dish" as in western food. a meal is made up of many many, sometimes a dozen or more, side dishes, often pickled, or candied in someway. there is also a soup, and some sort of rice. plus a meat, fish, chicken sort of thing... a real meal is a major undertaking. each indivdual side dish is made of entirely different things, and each has it's on prep time, and usually must be prepared a long time in advance. women usually, say, make an enormous amount of kimchi and store it, then use it meal by meal.
ok, the gender thing comes in like this- duh, yeah the cooking is all done by women. men do not cook, nor do they learn to cook. the closest they come to is learning how to heat water and make some ramen while in college. i've even heard that mothers used to tell their boy children their testicles would fall if if they entered the kitchen! the kitchen is the woman's domain.and basically her seat of power. women also usually control the money in the household ( well, they have to do all that shopping!)
the amount of time it takes for a single human being to keep her family fed in the typical cultural fashion is mind-boggling, balancing that with children makes it even more ridiculous. this sort of food culture, bascially ensures that women will never leave the home. of course women have jobs, and things are changing, but the mother and fathers and in-laws frown and ride their kin for purchasing store bought kimchi, etc. ( the husband, wife and family often live with the husbands families.) so at this point a woman actually has to choose to turn her back culturally, not upholding the traditional food and the values sytem it upholds. and going against the flock is pretty damn unusual here.
that's the long and short of it. the short of it really. not well explained... but here, food upholds the dominant paradigm in a way that is pretty insidious. it plays a really central role in the family, and in social culture. it's a powerful tool to keep gender roles in a holding pattern.
but here things are a bit different. first you have to understand the set-up of traditional korean food... there is usually no "main dish" as in western food. a meal is made up of many many, sometimes a dozen or more, side dishes, often pickled, or candied in someway. there is also a soup, and some sort of rice. plus a meat, fish, chicken sort of thing... a real meal is a major undertaking. each indivdual side dish is made of entirely different things, and each has it's on prep time, and usually must be prepared a long time in advance. women usually, say, make an enormous amount of kimchi and store it, then use it meal by meal.
ok, the gender thing comes in like this- duh, yeah the cooking is all done by women. men do not cook, nor do they learn to cook. the closest they come to is learning how to heat water and make some ramen while in college. i've even heard that mothers used to tell their boy children their testicles would fall if if they entered the kitchen! the kitchen is the woman's domain.and basically her seat of power. women also usually control the money in the household ( well, they have to do all that shopping!)
the amount of time it takes for a single human being to keep her family fed in the typical cultural fashion is mind-boggling, balancing that with children makes it even more ridiculous. this sort of food culture, bascially ensures that women will never leave the home. of course women have jobs, and things are changing, but the mother and fathers and in-laws frown and ride their kin for purchasing store bought kimchi, etc. ( the husband, wife and family often live with the husbands families.) so at this point a woman actually has to choose to turn her back culturally, not upholding the traditional food and the values sytem it upholds. and going against the flock is pretty damn unusual here.
that's the long and short of it. the short of it really. not well explained... but here, food upholds the dominant paradigm in a way that is pretty insidious. it plays a really central role in the family, and in social culture. it's a powerful tool to keep gender roles in a holding pattern.
I am loving fuzzy hats right now too, that's what I'm doing at the moment, crotchting my own little fuzzy black hat to match my coat! And I know the empty bed thing all too well